October Circana (NPD) 2023 Thread

[JRPGfan]

Geralt99 said:

JRPGfan said:

In the UK:

Sep (UK):
PS5 down 4% (waiting for new models, stuck reduction, spiderman bundles ect).
XBX/S down over 33%
Switch Sales up 15% (but still in 3rd place)

Oct (UK):
PS5 ~97K (~+58% yoy)
X|S ~40K (~ -40% yoy)
NSW ~36K

The Xbox numbers are nuts.
Its only the 3rd year, and its down 33%+ (yoy) in sep, and 40% (yoy) in Oct.

Then the fact that in terms of units sold, it was in 3rd place, in the US, its strongest market.
Why are Xbox sales slowing down so much?

I don't get why people are so surprised with Xbox's sales. 

They only reason they sold decent last year was due to severe shortages for the PS5.

Now that the PS5 is no longer supply constraint, xbox sales are considerably down year over year, down to its usual performance. 

I guess people set their expectations high with how well they did last year. But that only happened because the competition has no consoles to sell. 

That actually makes some sense imo.

Because Gamepass has been around for along time, it would be odd, if its just now suddenly haveing a bigger impact, in the 3rd year.
But parrents buying consoles for kids ect, and getting whats available... vs now when sony have stock, resulting in a drop (compaired to last year).
That makes more sense.